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Quotes About Inferiority

We scramble or race to "get what's ours." We often grow selfish, greedy, petty, fearful, or controlling, or sometimes confused, conflicted, or guilty. We see ourselves as winners or losers, powerful or helpless, and we let those labels deeply define us in ways that are inaccurate, as if financial wealth and control indicate innate superiority, and lack of them suggests a lack of worth or basic human potential.
~ Unknown
There are a few good ones, but most are losers who are too stupid to realize they are losers. And who are we to tell them? They are vastly superior to us, regardless of their stupidity, and they enjoy reminding us of this.
~ John Grisham
Mary found this insulting. It implied that she was Elizabeth's inferior.
~ John Guy
Definition implies subordination.
~ Unknown
A what?" said Egg. No doubt he thought that an inferiority complex was a weapon; sometimes, I guess, it is.
~ John Irving
He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.
~ John Knowles
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
~ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.
~ Unknown
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.
~ Elie Wiesel
I don't like the feeling of being forgotten, unappreciated, hated, belittled, or underestimated .
~ Unknown
Insecure people have to make excuses and put others down to feel confident. Confidence isn't walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you are better than everyone else, it's walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone in the first place.
~ Unknown
It's sad how some people are so jealous and intimidated by you that they only have negative things to say when they know absolutely nothing about you.
~ Unknown
Aaverage is being the best of the worst and the worst of the best. To be a champion average can't be in your vocabulary.
~ Unknown
My paycheck is so small it has an inferiority complex.
~ Unknown
whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud...
~ Marcel Proust
You what. Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy. You seen little guys like that, ain't you? Always scrappy?
~ John Steinbeck
Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy.
~ John Steinbeck
Out of the long tunnels of his eyes Adam saw his half-brother Charles as a bright being of another species, gifted with muscle and bone, speed and alertness, quite on a different plane, to be admired as one admires the sleek lazy danger of a black leopard, not by any chance to be compared with one's self.
~ John Steinbeck
No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.
~ Unknown
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
~ H. L. Mencken
Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.
~ Toba Beta
Im not jealous, I'm just tired of being in second place.
~ Unknown
Apenas discerni que repetir o que toda a gente pensava não era em política um sinal de inferioridade, mas de superioridade.
~ Marcel Proust